Most four-legged friends make do with a can of Pedigree Chum and a daily walk in the park but that's not good enough for these special breeds.

They enjoy the best money can buy - the finest cuts of meat, pedicures, and diamond-studded beds. Here are the doggy divas - finalists in the Pet Personality Awards - whose lives we mere humans can only dream about...

ROCCO

Posh Rocco is a pup with taste - very expensive taste - and luckily for the Jack Russell-corgie cross his owner is happy to indulge him.

He turns his nose up at common dog food, so owner Persephone Walter-Clark buys him finest fillet steak. He is also fussy about what he wears and turned his nose up at an expensive designer dog collar.

Persephone, 26, of Battersea, London, says: "I always get the best meat. I don't want him to be disappointed in me, I hate it when he gives me that look. I get the butcher to reserve the finest steak, it costs around £35 a piece but it's worth it."

At weekends, Rocco, six, insists on joining freelance beauty PR Persephone and her boyfriend Andrew for sit-down meals. She says: "I know I spoil him, but he just knows what to do to get his own way. He's so friendly and it just feels like he's part of the family."

Rocco also tends to get more presents than anyone else at Christmas.

And Persephone admits that she spoils the pooch more than she would her own babies.

Jake also receives luxury pedicures, musclerelaxing baths and regular, two-hour-long massage sessions. Single Jake, from Mill Hill, North London, says: "We got Jake when I was 13 and we've been together ever since. It's so hard growing up at that age, it's almost like having a friend to do it with you."

Nick repays the affect by lavishing Jake with gifts. "One Christmas I bought him a diamond-laced tail warmer so he wouldn't catch a chill in his tail when he went out," he said.

"When we're apart I miss him. We have an idyllic relationship because he is always there for me regardless. His love for me is so powerful and strong, and I can't help but love him back."

LOLA

Most dogs are happy to doze off on a rug in front of the fire - not Yorkshire Terrier Lola.

She has a wrought iron, pink, four-poster fantasy fairy bed encrusted with Swarovski crystals. And if she doesn't fancy that, she can retire on any one of eight other luxury beds, colour-coordinated with different rooms of the house.

Owner Louise Harris, 30, had the bed made from her own designs at a cost of £3,000.

She says: "It's a beautiful bed, with lace curtains and the best faux fur we could find. She doesn't sleep in it very much though. I'm also in the process of having an 18-carat gold doggy necklace made for her with a little gold bone, which will cost £3,500. We've had a mock-up made already and it looks amazing."

In fact Louise, from Chelmsford, Essex, calculates she's spent over £70,000 on Lola so far - and she's only five years old. Louise says: "I think she appreciates the fact she has nice beds to sleep in because they're made from better quality materials.

"And when she goes out in the cold she definitely appreciates not being put in a cheap coat that's uncomfortable and doesn't wear very well.

"But there are certain things. For instance, I don't think she can tell the difference between cashmere and cotton." Louise, who recently gave up her job as an analyst in the City to open her own pet boutique and parlour, Diva Dogs, adds: "I was never a dog lover, I always had cats and gerbils.

"But I fell in love with Lola the first time I saw her and having her changed my life. She's part of my family, so why shouldn't I give her the best I can afford?"